[Xerte] Re: Text to Speech - disable in IE

[Pat Lockley]

I think Janis is also Latvian? and so may also have different laws?

Is there a list anywhere of compliances / best practice for different
legislations?

Might help with internationalisation?

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Alistair McNaught
<Alistair.McNaught at heacademy.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Janis
> Thanks for clarification. That sounds like a defensible decision and
> although there's no obligation for you to justify it to me (!) I'm grateful
> you took the time to explain, not least because accessibility is one of the
> selling points of Xerte and it's good to keep the topic alive on the list.
> All the best
> Alistair
>
>
> Sent from my phone:
> Alistair McNaught
> 07870567659
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> On 27 Jul 2011, at 18:47, "Janis Ozols" <stepiko14 at inbox.lv> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Julian. It is done know. Sorry, I couldn't locate it in the
> archive.
> Alistair McNaught, I decided to disable Text to Speech option, because we
> have recorded our own text narration for important text objects and embedded
> it into the project, and I think it will be more accessible in the end as
> our test groups reported they couldn't enable Xerte Text to Speech to work
> even with tutorials on how to enable ActiveX in IE properties. As well as
> many users just don't have an administrator access to computers in public
> places to make it work. + own recorded narration will work in all browsers.
> So that was the reason to dissable Xerte's text to speech and record/embedd
> our own narration.
>
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